Joint implants
During knee replacement surgery, an orthopaedic surgeon will resurface your damaged knee with artificial components, called implants
Metals from implants can accumulate in bone tissue. Analyses of spatially resolved synchrotron X-ray fluorescence images of human bone and bone marrow biopsies: characteristic distribution patterns for specific metals (cobalt,
… READ MOREWhy are women at higher risk of complications after total hip or knee replacement surgery? An increased rate of hypersensitivity to the metals contained in joint implants might be a contributing factor, suggests a study in the April
… READ MORETotal knee arthroplasty as we know it today, for the vast majority of patients, is really a resurfacing of the knee. Approximately a centimeter of bone is shaved off all of the surfaces of each bone and replaced with metal and/or
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